Or, more in line with what was asked:
con <- textConnection("foo", "w")
write.csv(file=con, airquality)
close(con)
foo
It does, incidentally, look possible to equip write.table (of which write.csv
is a special case) with an intern=TRUE setting, which could effectively do the
above internally and return the result. There is no documented return value
from write.table as far as I can tell.
-pd
> On 12 Mar 2015, at 19:25 , Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Maybe using text connections. See ?textConnection.
>
> tc <- textConnection("foo", "w")
> s <- 'cola,colb\n1,2\n2,3\n'
> cat(s, file = tc)
> close(tc)
> foo
>
> read.csv(text = foo)
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 12-03-2015 17:15, Thomas Nyberg escreveu:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've found the following useful functionality:
>>
>>> s <- 'cola,colb\n1,2\n2,3\n'
>>> read.csv(text=s)
>> cola colb
>> 1 1 2
>> 2 2 3
>>
>>
>> But I haven't found a similar option in write.csv. I.e. I would like to
>> "write" a dataframe to a string. What would be the easiest way to go
>> about such a thing? Right now I can only think of using a file as an
>> intermediary, but that seems a bit silly. Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas Nyberg
>>
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